WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — President Barack Obama has called Sen. Elizabeth Warren “wrong” on international trade policy. But in private, administration officials are using much more colorful terms.

The Massachusetts Democrat’s attacks are “baseless” and “desperate” with “no bearing or relation to anything we are doing,” those officials say, according to Politico. Warren’s newest complaint about Obama’s trade agenda is, if Congress gives Obama what he wants on so-called “fast track” trade authority, a future Republican president could use the power to gut the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Obama this week is stepping up his efforts to sell fast track and a major Pacific trade deal to his party.

High dollars and Hillary: The Wall Street Journal reports Hillary Clinton met privately in San Francisco on Wednesday with a small group of potential high-dollar donors to the Priorities USA Action super PAC. It was her first donor meeting aimed at supporting the political-action committee that is backing her presidential campaign. The meetings mark an escalation in fundraising by Clinton, who is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, at a time when Republican donors are funding super PACs to back candidates.

Big bucks for Bernie: The campaign of Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s only declared challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, raised $3 million in four days, the Huffington Post writes. Sanders is a Vermont senator and an independent, but is running as a Democrat. Sanders, who declared his candidacy on April 30, has retained the help of a crew of former aides to President Barack Obama, the Huffington Post also wrote.

‘Big’ Santorum announcement coming: Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Wednesday he’ll make a “big announcement” about 2016 presidential campaign plans on May 27 in Pittsburgh. The Republican, who ran for the nomination in 2012, has been meeting with local activists and party leaders in early-voting states to gauge support for what appears to be another run, the Hill writes.

But can they sing? The presidential candidates naturally have a variety of views on political matters. But many of them have at least one thing in common, writes the New York Times: a love of music. The Times dug up some clips of candidates (or potential candidates like Democrat Martin O’Malley) doing their musical best. Watch Mike Huckabee play the bass guitar; O’Malley sing at Maryland’s Rechter Theater; and hear Bernie Sanders sing “This land is your land.”

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